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Jul 10, 2021 · Global capitalism seems to be placing democracy, especially liberal democracy, under considerable stress. Support for populism has surged, especially for extreme right parties with populist and authoritarian programs.
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The belief capitalism and democracy always go hand-in-hand is historically inaccurate. "Capitalism is basically an economic system that can function, and has historically functioned, within the context of a number of different political systems, ranging from democratic to extremely authoritarian," explains Jacques Pauwels, a Canadian historian and ...
Capitalism and authoritarianism took a different twist in the post-war era. "At the end of the Second World War, the United States looked around the world and told itself: 'We are the only important country that has not been sapped politically, economically, morally and militarily by this war'," observes Stephen Kinzer, a former New York Times fore...
At the same time it was active in Iran, the CIA also engineered a coup in Guatemala, overthrowing the democratically-elected government of Jacobo Arbenz, on behalf of the United Fruit Company, the American multinational famous for producing Chiquita bananas. Arbenz had wanted to expropriate unused plantation land and give it to agricultural workers...
The rise of right-wing populism arrived in America in 2016, when former Goldman Sachs executive, Steve Bannon, a proponent of the alt-right and head of Breitbart News at the time, went looking for a candidate to run for the Republican nomination. He found developer, Donald Trump. But long before Trump's ascendency, corporations and the ultra-wealth...
In recent years, the Republican Party and its wealthy backers have been attempting to undermine the U.S. electoral system by gerrymandering Congressional districts and engaging in voter suppression methods aimed at constraining the ability to vote among minorities, especially African Americans. "And in 2016, for example, certain urban areas, colleg...
Mar 11, 2020 · Democracy and capitalism coexist in many variations around the world, each continuously reshaped by the conditions and the people forming them. Increasingly, people have deep concerns about...
May 7, 2018 · Is Capitalism a Threat to Democracy? The idea that authoritarianism attracts workers harmed by the free market, which emerged when the Nazis were in power, has been making a comeback. By Caleb...
Jan 16, 2024 · Martin Wolf’s The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism critically examines the fragile alliance between democracy and capitalism, proposing solutions for the challenges threatening their symbiotic relationship, writes Rafael Pampillón.
Mar 18, 2020 · Capitalism and democracy absolutely need each other to survive, but right now it is democracy that is most threatened. Capitalism is the right way to organize an economy, but it’s not a good way...
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Jan 29, 2021 · In many parts of the Western world, the liberal and democratic values and institutions on which planning ideas are based have been under sustained attack or crumbling in the face of globalising capitalism and consumer culture.
